I honestly feel the total shutdown/panic we are seeing here stateside is due to who is our current Commander in Chief.
If Obama was still in office, the response by the Government AND US citizens would be dramatically different.
Since we all know an idiot is in power, people are "realizing" we're fucked.
We may not be as bad, but I feel the incompetence of this administration, the sensationalism of the media and peoples own ignorance is causing the panic we are seeing.
The shut-down is 100% because the leadership did nothing.
It's really that simple
So comparing plagues doesn't make sense.
If Obama was president he'd been taking precautions in December.
Making changes as far as screenings to get into the country in January
There would have been cdc INCREASED BUDGET NOT CUT
There would have been instructions to governor's on how to fight it
He wouldn't have flown planes and planes full of COVID infected people BACK to America against CDC warning
He wouldn't have MADE PEOPLE take docked cruises after the fact
There wouldn't be a need to FORCE PEOPLE to social distance cause a plan would have been in place.
All of these things would have been taken care of to make sure our daily lives weren't interrupted.
We'd have ACCEPTED the masks and treatments China offered us in January
We would have been monitoring it from the jump
We would have done the complete opposite of what he's doing.
We're going to be OK
It's just that the time came for someone with sense to lead us out of some shit
and he COULDN'T
AND SINCE HE COULDN'T HE MADE THINGS SO MUCH WORSE.
I still feel sorry for people who don't live in states with proactive governor's
ones that subscribe to trump who aren't working to make sure that you do all the stuff NOW so you don't pay for it later.